Fundraising Dinner

Saturday, 1st May 2010

A great night out supporting a worthy cause!
Good food and fun with live entertainment, games, live and silent auctions, prizes and a raffle!

Details:  7:00 for 7:30pm, at Dragon Boat Palace, 149 Lonsdale St, Melbourne    BYO Wine only
Tickets:  $50 a person, with tables in groups of 10.  
Contact: Juliana 0409899881
Enquiries: vvpmelbourne@gmail.com

Please click HERE to download Fundraising Dinner Flyer to fill out for Donation

Dear Friends and Supporters,   It was beyond everyone’s imagination that we had a successful fund raising dinner on Friday 12 June 2009 for the Vietnam Vision trip. We are overwhelmed by the support from the community. Nearly 800 people attended the dinner and had helped us to raise more than 80 thousand dollars.   We are now able to help more than 400 poor people with blindness from cataracts in Vietnam and to buy an operating microscope for use in our trip. During August and early September this year, our volunteers will provide free cataract operations and medical check up for the poor in Thu Duc, Long Thanh and Tay Ninh of Vietnam. The team will later travel to Kampong Thom in Cambodia to do the same work for 200 more poor patients.   I wish to thank many people in the community who have donated to our cause. Vietnam Vision has received donations from many states, especially small to large donations from people within the Vietnamese community. All are valuable for the poor.   The success of the fundraising is the hard work of many volunteers many months before the main event. All had sacrificed their time and work to put up together the program. The Vietnamese Student Association and The Vietnamese Australian Dragon Boat team had helped with reception and selling raffle tickets. Many singers, the Excedo band, Phuong Tim and Bon Phuong Choirs had produced the best entertainment. I wish to make special thanks to Steven and Rachelle, Cameron and Tanaya who gave the audience their beautiful dance floor shows.   Many companies, sponsors have donated gifts for the raffles. Many companies, clubs are our major sponsors. I would like to thank them all for their generous supports to our work.   Dr Son Chau-Vo and Ms Tanya Anhtuan were our Master of Ceremony of the night together with our Auctioneers, Mr Luu Dan and Ms Yen Tuyet have turned the night alive with laugh and emotion. Dr. Tam Tran has produced a very moving video on Vietnam Vision work last year and made many cried. Please click on this link to read more...

Acknowledgement We wish to thank the following organisations and individuals for their generous support : ABC tissue products Alcon specialist eye care company Allergan AMO vision for life AstraZeneca Australian Doctor AVHPA NSW Inc.  ( Hội Y Tế Việt Nam NSW ) Bạch Đằng Restaurant BauschLomb Bamboo Printing Châu Pharmacy Bankstown Chiêu Dương Danielle Fashion Dân Việt David Lu Ettason Asian food importer and wholesaler Express Flight Centre Fairfield Champion Community Newspaper Insight Surgical ITT Water & Wastewater Jannar Dang Taxation Accounting Finance Med Lab Australia Mivision Ophthalmic Magazine Nuevo Cosmetics Clinic One Thai Restaurant

Paint A Rainbow Foundation PFizer Quán Quân Rotary Clubs of Australia SBS Radio Sydney Sprouts nutritious & delicious Thắng Garage Pink Slip & Auto Repair True Scan Radiology Văn Nghệ weekly newspaper Việt Luận newspaper VoviKungfu Vovisoft Vovicare VSA Vietnamese Students Associaltion All generous donors All volunteers without whom the work of Vietnam Vision Project would not be possible

Mission Statement

1. To restore the vision of people suffering from cataracts by using the technologies from Australia and the skills of Australian health professional volunteers.

2. To provide charitable assistance to other areas of need.

Operation Principles

A number of criteria have been set up as guiding principles for operation.
1. Treating blindness from cataracts, not from other eye conditions.
2. It is only for the poor, without any discrimination on the grounds of religion or ethnicity.
3. It is for those living in rural areas.
4. Cataract operations will be completely free.
5. Volunteers, except for surgeons, will have to pay for their own costs during the mission.

Since 2003, Vietnam Vision Project has operated on more than 2700 cataracts for the poor in rural areas of Central and South Vietnam with the help of Australian ophthalmologists, optometrists, general practitioners and other health professionals volunteers . The mission is annually and all volunteers contribute their time and airfares.

For further information, please contact :
Vietnam Vision Inc.
PO Box 313
Cabramatta NSW 2166
Australia
Tel :  61-2- 9724 2495 
Fax: 61-2- 9726 6247
Email : phuoc@vietnamvision.org.au or info@vietnamvision.org.au